One of the key topics of the World Economic Forum will be the possible spread of a new pandemic, which will be ten times more dangerous than COVID-19.
"Disease X" can provoke a new pandemic
Participants at the Davos forum noted new warnings from the World Health Organization that an unknown "disease X" could lead to 20 times more deaths than the coronavirus pandemic.
What is essential to understand is that "Disease X" is a hypothetical name for an unknown pathogen capable of causing an epidemic or pandemic.
As the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, notes, the "X" in the name stands for "surprise."
According to preliminary data, this issue will be discussed on January 17.
Its participants will be:
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — Director-General of World Heath Organisation;
Shyam Bishen — head of the Center for Health and Healthcare and member of the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum in Geneva;
Roy Jacobs — President and Chief Executive Officer of Royal Philips;
Preeta Reddy — Executive Vice-Chairman of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd;
Nicia Trindade Lima — Minister of Health of Brazil;
Michel Demare — Chairman of the Board of AstraZeneca Plc;
Jamil Edmond Anderlin - editor-in-chief Europe, Politico.
The number of COVID-19 cases is increasing again in Kyiv
On January 8, the authorities of the capital called on citizens to return to the mask regime in places of gathering people to reduce the risk of infection with COVID-19.
The first deputy chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration, Mykola Povoroznyk, made such a statement.
According to the latter, the number of respiratory diseases caused by COVID-19, influenza and other pathogens has increased in many countries for several weeks.
This issue is also relevant in Kyiv. After all, new cases of coronavirus disease are recorded every week. Among the hospitalized patients, there are also serious patients.
